Author Archives: Oakhill
Summer arrives softly
(CSA Newsletter: Week 20) Meet this week’s vegetables: Broccoli — The fresh broccoli has begun! This is one of the best-loved veggies every year. Enjoy! Snap peas OR salad turnips — Every year, some of our crops exceeded our expectations … Continue reading
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Some early summer greens recipes
Chard with sweet-and-sour ginger sauce (also useful for Asian greens) adapted from Farmer John’s Cookbook Normally, we pair chard with French or Italian themed flavors (hard cheeses, anchovies, ham, bacon, shallots), but I couldn’t resist offering this unique recipe. I’d … Continue reading
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Recovery on the farm continues
(CSA Newsletter: Week 19) Meet this week’s vegetables: Beets — The first of this season’s beets! Your choice between standard red beets or golden or ‘chioggia’ (an Italian specialty beet with lighter red skin). All kinds of beets can be … Continue reading
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Beet tips
Hopefully, you’re in the majority of our CSA members and love love love your beets. However, if you’re in the small but vocal minority of beet haters (or beet ‘kind of not likers’), then here are a few tips to … Continue reading
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Big storm damages crops, cont.
(CSA Newsletter: Week 18) Meet this week’s vegetables: Sugar snap peas OR salad turnips — We feel a little cruel about giving snap peas to just half of the CSA this week, but we promise that you all will get … Continue reading
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Fava beans 101
Fava beans, also known as ‘broad beans,’ were the only bean in Europe before the introduction of beans from the Americas. Favas continue to have a solid place in Italian cooking but are rare in the United States. We only … Continue reading
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Freak storm attacks farm
I’ll write more in the actual newsletter, but I thought I’d at least let you all know immediately that the freak storm this afternoon did some major damage out in the fields. Our beautiful tomato field house came down dramatically. … Continue reading
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Planting, GMOs & other thoughts
(CSA Newsletter: Week 17) Meet this week’s vegetables: Salad mix — As I said last week: late spring is all about salad! This week that is truer than ever. We have lettuce bursting from every seam on the farm, so … Continue reading
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Big Green Salad (B.G.S.)
A Big Green Salad is not just any salad — B.G.S. is a salad main course. To build your B.G.S., begin by filling each eater’s plate with lightly dressed lettuce (see the homemade dressing suggestion in the shallot description). Cover … Continue reading
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Two upcoming events
Mac Farmers’ Market opens Thursday! The McMinnville Farmers’ Market opens for the season this Thursday, May 28. Market is on Cowls Street, between 2nd and 3rd Streets, and runs from 1:30 – 6:00 pm. For the last three years, Oakhill … Continue reading
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